| 单词 | confound |
| 释义 | con·found 1. archaic a. b. < confound their politics, frustrate their knavish tricks — Henry Carey > 2. a. < their native speech was not confounded with a vulgarized spoken Latin — M.W.Baldwin > b. obsolete < he did confound the best part of an hour in changing hardiment with great Glendower — Shakespeare > 3. a. < the influence of … El Greco … lay dormant for centuries and rose to confound the critics of later times — Bernard Smith > b. < this new arm of science may corroborate or confound the theories of the universe — David England > 4. < confound it > 5. < attacks which confounded opponents with bewildering reverses [of direction] — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > 6. < they implored Charles not to confound the innocent with the guilty — T.B.Macaulay > 7. < ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, confusion worse confounded — John Milton > < to divide Europe as the politicians have done is to invite confusion and to divide the frontier as the Europeans did is to confound the confusion — W.P.Webb > Synonyms: see puzzle |
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